We chopped up the Golden Goose that layed the Golden Eggs. Why did we let it happen? Who said we had to compete in a global economic arena? The Marshall Plan helped restored local value added economies in Europe and Asia after World War 2. It was based on the awesome indusrial might of the USA that won World War 2. We gave the Golden Eggs from our Golden Goose economy for others to share. We did not send the Golden Goose itself. Now we have chopped up the Golden Goose and sent the pieces around the world. Now we have to defend our interests worldwide with wars.

What is this thing called Free Trade? It is not trade. It is based on moving production and factories from place to place based on the cheapest labor markets of the world down to the levels of wage slave and even child labor. Workers are the real commodities of Free Trade. They are put on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs. They really have no voice in the process of Globalization which is driven by elite groupings inside and outside goverment.

Teddy Roosevelt said his worst fear for America was big government getting in bed with big business. This is what Free Trade is all about. Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable. Today they are an epidemic out of control.

The value of stocks are now based on people getting fired instead of hired. There was a time, when companies were awarded more stock value by how many people they could employ while still making a decent profit for the investors. After all, labor is the core of any society. Labor is the key to a good society socially and economically. If a society falters, everyone loses. Free Trade has degraded labor and made it something sinister. A working poor class has been created in the USA and an impoverished working class outside of the USA. No wonder most of South America is radically protesting Globalization. Subsistent living workers are losing their jobs, farms and small businesses due to Free Trade.

Even if everyone in the world was provided a good education, high tech skills and a computer, it would be senseless if everyone has to compete for the same jobs. It is also nonsensical to have tax payers fund research and development if the manufacturing process goes outside the country. In the end, Tax payers pay their way out of their jobs.

Productivity is a good thing but when it is based on the deflation of wages, nothing good happens. In the USA, we have scrambled the common good till there is nothing left of it.

We have put individual libertarianism before the welfare of our society in an anything goes economic arena. The Free Traders keep saying this is a good thing. Why have we let them take over. A new "ism" has quietly taken over in the form of Globalism. This new "ism" fuses with all other "isms" for the sake of power and money for a few. It makes a mockery out of the free enterprise system and workers dignity.

I worked at four different factories while attending college in the 1950s. I made the eqivalent of $15 to $20 an hour. The jobs were plentiful. If these jobs were available today, thousands would be standing in line to get them. The industrial revolution is not over. We still use the products. The only difference is these products are made outside the USA.

Later, I served super markets city wide. There were many. I traveled in all parts of the city without a problem. However, in the course of about eight years about five store owners were killed during the course of robberies but the worst had just begun.

During the Clinton years, about 20 were killed with only a fraction of the stores left. Now, as I travel all these areas not much is left. There are miles of empty stores throughout the city. I experienced the Hough riots in Cleveland first hand and saw blocks of stores burn now but nothing compares to what I see now with miles of streets looking like a third world country. Hurricane Katrina exposed the Silent Depression after it hit New Orleans. It exposed a vast underclass not only residing in New Orleans but across our land.

I traveled across town to go to college. There are more highways now but the fastest way to go is through the center of the city now bypassing all the highways. It was almost impossible to do this during the 1950s. These streets were full of life and busy activity. Emptiness has replaced all this activity. Recently, I did travel in a area near downtown Cleveland. To my surprise everything, everything seemed to be cleaner. There were two policemen riding their bikes patrolling the area. Everything seemed to be better until I realized something was missing. There were no people on the streets during the day where once these streets were full of life and business activity.

South of this area, I had a business appointment and could not find the place. I wondered if I should walk down the streets to locate the place. I did not feel safe so I went to nearest large big box store and asked the guard at the door if it was safe enough to walk down a certain street. He said he would not do it.

We had a small factory in the inner city too. I worked out of the factory for years and at the end of the block, I ate lunch at a little restaurant bar. Just a few years later the whole area rapidly changed with most of the factories empty and the restaurant closed. The owner was shot to death in a robbery.

What follows all this. First of all, the unemployment rate is fabricated when compared to the past. Only about 38% of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance in America. The Bureau of Unemployment changed their reporting methods to adjust to this fact. Since 1985 the growth industries were in temporary work offices, contract and day workers agencies, pay day loan stores, credit card industry with usuary rates up to 30% or more and the food banks feeding the hungry. The prison population keeps breaking records. Reportedly, the USA has more people in prisons than any other country based on total population. Prisons have become one of our major industries.

Getting America Working Forum reports that 50% of human resources in the USA are not being used. Millions are missing in action and not part of any kind of reporting.

There are over 40 million Americans in need of food with about one third being children. About the same number of people having no medical insurance. We have a top TV American Idol program doing a charity drive relating to this. Many of the homeless are working families who do not make enough money to pay for shelter. Reportedly, Walmart and other type employers tell their workers to seek government assistance. The largest employers in most major cities are governments and then medical with both depending on a tax base which is dwindling. At the same time the public workers make much more than the people they serve. How can anyone expect this to work.

Why did we chop up the Golden Goose like this? Who led the way? The U.S. Government itself sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956 and this program never ended. The American workers have lost World War 2 more than fifty years later. We need to bring back local production for local consumption. The new working poor class in the USA is finding it difficult to even afford the cheaper imports while the workers outside the USA do not make enough to buy the very things they make let alone have anthing left over to buy what the USA has left to sell. The money spent at retail does not stay in place to grow local value added economies but it quickly fans out to the places where the products are made.

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